all the speaker has to do is say we care about america, we care about rural america, 16 million people who work every day, who are folks that just do their jobs, and when the job has got to get done, whether it's early in the morning, late at night, they do it, and they expect us to do the same thing. there's no excuse, none, none that makes any sense not to get a five-year farm bill done, not to make sure we have the disaster assistance that's needed for farmers and ranchers and not to get the reforms that cut back on taxpayer subsidies we should not be providing and the deficit reduction that is critically important as we come up to this fiscal cliff. so i want to thank everyone in this body for working with us to get a bill done that i think we should all be very proud of, and we're going to continue to push as we go forward, hoping that at some moment the house republican leadership will look around at the small towns in their districts and decide that they matter and that they will pass a five-year farm bill. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermon